Roberto Clemente Hayden Hainsey Roberto Clemente was an inspiration to not only baseball fans and players, but to anyone that knows what he did. He was not only a baseball legend, but a very helpful person in the community. He donated to charities and did what other players thought of as a chore and took as a job that needed to be done. He tried to give back for how well he was helped out. If he wasn’t an inspiration to you before, he will be after this. Roberto Clemente’s life began on August
Seitz Cuatro El cinco de octubre Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente was born on August 18, 1934 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Clemente’s family was poor and he was the youngest of seven children. His father, Melchor Clemente, worked as a foreman on a sugarcane planation and his mother, Luisa Clemente, ran a grocery store for plantation workers. To earn money for his family he worked alongside his father and took other jobs like delivering milk. Clemente began playing baseball with other neighborhood
Ricans, baseball. Clemente was a hero in Puerto RIco and across Latin America because of his success in the best professional baseball league in the world. Clemente was also known for his charity work, especially back at home in Puerto Rico. Ironically Clemente died when his plane in an effort to aid the people of Managua, Nicaragua after an earthquake (Parker chapter 3). Had Clemente not died at the age of 38, his influence would have surely been greater than it already was. Clemente understood the